Category Archives: features

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Wordie Blog Widget

In response to many requests, I present to you the Wordie blog widget. It displays recent words from Wordie on your blog. You can configure how many words are shown, and choose to display recent words from all your lists, from a single list, or from the site as a whole. Due to space constraints it only displays definition links for Ninjawords and The Free Dictionary. And please note that it uses Javascript, so it doesn’t work on blogging platforms that prohibit Javascript, such as LiveJournal.

There’s a link to the widget generator at the bottom of every page. Per usual, please let me know if it’s broken, or if you’d like me to fancy it up somehow. This time around I actually tested in Safari, Firefox 2, and IE 6.

You can see it in action at the bottom of the sidebar in my erstwhile blog, Fryolator, now mostly defunct.

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Flickr Group, List Descriptions

Two updates today. First, Lampbane set up a Flickr group for Wordies, open to all. I’m thrilled about this — there’s something inately interesting about photos of signage and text, heightened by the slight irony of a group of people from a text-only logophile site sharing photographs. Maybe the slogan for the group should be “Like Wordie, but without all the words.”

This joins the LibraryThing group for Wordies set up by angharad.

One good use for the Flickr group might be posting images related to a specific word list, and it will be easier to link the two now that word lists have proper description fields. Up until now it seems like most of us have been using comments to describe our lists, which was imperfect, since the description would get pushed to the bottom of the page as more comments were added. Well, no longer — you can add a proper description, when either creating or editing a list, and it will stay up top where it belongs, below the list name.

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Move Words Between List, First Wordied

Added two frequently requested features: the abilities to move words between lists and to see who it was who first listed a word. Both pretty self-explanatory: to move a word, go to the list it’s currently on, click the ‘move’ link next to the word, select the target list, and click the little button. To see who first listed a word, go to any word page and look. Wordie at the top of the list got first blood, with the most recent person to add the word appearing at the bottom.

Please let me know if you see any weird behaviors; as usual, I cranked these out and didn’t test a whole heck of a lot. Though they seem to be working fine so far.

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New Features Roundup

Stuff added since launch, but before this blog went up:

  • Bookmarklet: Mad, mad props to angharad for contributing a Bookmarklet, which lets you select words on any web page and import them directly into Wordie. Works with Safari and Firefox (Mac or PC), does not work with IE 6. To install, bookmark the ‘Add to Wordie’ link below (on Safari and Firefox you can just drag it onto your bookmarks bar).
    bookmark this -> Add to Wordie

  • Comment Search: You can now search comments from the recent comments page.
  • Links in comments: When adding comments and citations wrapping words in [brackets] now links them to their Wordie page.
  • Steal this Word: ability to import words directly into your lists.

  • Favorites: ability to bookmark lists and words you like.